Saturday, February 16, 2013

CAIR:Muslim Citizen Sentenced to Life Without Air Travel (Oklahoman)What's most alarming about Saadiq's ordeal is that the FBI will never have to explain its actions. When it comes to separating Saadiq ­ and many others ­ from family via its ever-growing and always secret watch lists, the FBI is judge, jury and executioner. Saadiq hasn't been indicted, charged or convicted of any crime. And yet the FBI has claimed for itself the power to impose permanent punishment upon Saadiq: life without air travel. -- Gadeir Abbas is Saadiq Long's attorney and on staff with the Council on American-Islamic Relations' headquarters in Washington, D.C. Adam Soltani is executive director of CAIR Oklahoma.

Watch: FBI's Invasive Racial Mapping of Muslims, OthersAccording to the ACLU, the program profiles Muslims and Arab-Americans in Michigan, African-Americans in Georgia, Chinese and Russian-Americans in California and broad swaths of Latino-American communities in multiple states.

Right-WingRuns with "John Brennan-is-a-Muslim" Theory (Salon)A disgraced former FBI agent and anti-Islam activist claims that John Brennan, President Obama's pick to head the CIA, is "unfit for duty" because he just might be a secret Muslim.